real, raw motherhood
At 8.30 pm on Wednesday, we said goodbye to yet another neighbor. The Johnsons had lived at the end of our private lane, two houses down from us for just over 5 years now. They moved in with one tiny tot and moved out with two: a first grader girl and a toddler boy. (Their…
Life is good!
Imagine how thinking and saying those words might impact your life. How you might act differently, carry yourself, interact with your world and the people in it. How you might feel…
Today is 02/10/2018 and I predict that stress will kill me one day. The worst kind of death possible. A terrible agony that will have started long before my final breath. I’ll be 42 in a month and I have been stressed ever since I can remember. There is a photo of me as a…
I went from one tropic (Capricorn) to another (Cancer). I moved from the French state of La Reunion to the American state of Hawaii. Once an island girl, always an island girl. A new generation is now following in my footsteps.
Last week was my birthday. I turned 42. Here is a list of 42 things I’ve learned so far (in no particular order). 1: Do not buy whipped cream or dark chocolate chips in bulk size at Costco. 2: There are more good people than bad ones. 3: Nagging is pointless. 4: Life’s weird so…
Next week is one of celebration. I’m turning 42 and my blog will be two years old. Two years of faithful writing. Two years of publishing an essay a week. Two years of sitting down in front of the screen, equipped with a keyboard and the willingness to give a voice to the bouncing thoughts…
My husband’s father just passed away. He had been married 65 years. He had 4 children, 5 grandchildren and 1 great-grand child. What a great legacy! He would have been 84 next month and though it’s still sad, it’s a lot easier to say goodbye to someone who’s had a long productive life. Unfortunately death…
I was 34 and married twelve years before I became a mother. We had wanted that baby and carefully planned for it. Pregnancy was wonderful. Labor and delivery, something I look back fondly on. We brought home a newborn with a mild case of jaundice and, for the first week, all she did was sleep.…
Kids cost money. No surprise here. Feeding them. Clothing them. Educating them. One of the biggest chunks of our budget goes to pay for our daughter’s extra curricular activities. Here is her weekly program: Mondays: Sewing and Violin Tuesdays: Art class every other week Thursdays: Swim class (we just had to stop and I’ll explain…
I’ve spent the past two weeks engrossed in reading Gone with the Wind. I watched the movie again a couple of months ago and decided it was high time I knew Scarlett better. Only a few chapters remain and I’ve put the book down, reluctant to get to the bitter end, wondering how close to…